Ironically, it seems like you two are using your degrees.
Queen Anthai
THIS FUCKING PUN
Davus
Gosh, it’s great, isn’t it?
Pseudowolf
I found it a little obtuse, to be honest.
Laura
Acutely funny!
Reltzik
Definitely gradian-A humor.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Absolutely radian…t
Leorale
Haha, awesome
Ed Callahan
Best pun in years.
clif
As insane as measuring rotations in 360 degree segments is, measuring rotations in terms of distance is even crazier and means pi pops up in all kinds of places it has no real business being. A 1/2 rotation is much more straightforward than 180 degrees or pi radiations. This becomes particularly true when you get to complex exponents. If we adopted the simpler system of defaulting to rotations instead of radians then it’s easy to see that when taking something to an imaginary power, only the fractions count. Its easy to see that x to the i power = x, x to the 1/2 i power = -x, x to the 1/4 i power = ix, and so forth. Computationally, having to take imaginary powers mod 2 pi, when pi is irrational is just nuts. For that matter, approximating trig functions on digital computers for useful intervals as the ratio of two power series is slightly simpler and slightly more accurate when using rotations instead of radians. It’s too late to change it now, but incorporating radians into our mathematical notation was a bad move. /End of rant.
clif
Ah! pi radiations should be pi radians. Insert rant on autocorrect and the lack of edit functionality.
clif
It also helps to be fully awake when ranting. That should be to the power of 1+i, 1+ 1/2 i, and 1 +1/4 i. As written, x to the power of 1/2 i would be -1 using rotations instead of radians, etc.
Decidedly Orthogonal
That would get rid of pi in some cases, but it certainly wouldn’t fix everything. There is another perspective that helps clean up a bunch of other inconsistencies though:
Oh. There’s also a good reason why circles are measured in degrees (aside from the coincidence of being close to 365.24…) 360 is a superior highly composite number. It breaks up into a LOT of whole fractions nicely and also plays nicely with our primitive fixation on decimal numbers.
“Becky, you can’t seriously be claiming that the ENTIRE main cast is queer in some way?! Your gaydar MUST be malfunctioning…”
“I’m telling you, it’s true! Every single one of them! One day, everyone’ll come out of the closet, and then you’ll see…you’ll ALL see!”
*20 years later*
“MUAHAHAHAHA! I WAS RIGHT! I WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG! EAT IT, LOSERS!”
Casi
20 years later our time? so end of freshman year for them
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Nope, 20 years later THEIR time… by which point, our grandkids will be reading this comic which will still be in production by Willis-bot 3000. xD
Leorale
The straights still have Sarah, Joe, probably Jacob, and probably Lucy! And I guess Roz and Mary, but they’re not exactly tier 1.
Possibly it could just be Becky doing her usual, which is to make a comment about being a lesbian with every encounter with every person. Might be a coincidence. Maybe.
That strip always rankled me because so many people cite the Kinsey scale and act like citing his work is a good thing, but rarely do they know about how wildly skewed Kinsey’s research by the types of people interviewed, the methods used for data gathering, and his own sexuality getting way too involved in the studies to consider his findings scientificly objective
CandidCanid
Those are fair critiques. Although, for a time it has been understandably wielded as a way to explain things to people in a way that might make sense to them, more or less—albeit on a surface level.
Personally, I can say that learning about the Kinsey scale as a teenager helped give me the tools and words to measure and make sense of things I was going through. Past a certain point, I found it too flawed and reductive to be useful anymore… but I am still grateful that it helped me at one time.
I’d love to see more well-rounded and ethical research become popularized, all that being said. I think it’s important to examine the kinds of errors and inethicalities that tend to plague such important academic works, that we might later down the line be able to find them a little bit more deserving of being lauded as the landmarks of social progress that they are.
Regret
Educate more, berate less.
Also, self-reported position on the Kinsey scale doesn’t have any of those problems. It doesn’t use his methods, only interviews one person, and the only sexuality involved is theirs.
Damn that rings true. How much damage has she done to herself just by thinking, “presidents aren’t allowed to ____.”
Li
Well, for starters, she has deliberately avoided being honest with her therapist even though she suspects she might benefit from medication (like an antidepressant).
Becky, you probably didn’t know the psychological gunshot wound you just inflicted upon Dorothy, but if you did then I cannot give you enough respect for overhearing this conversation and deciding to make it worse.
305 thoughts on “Vocab”
Ana Chronistic
You know what’s rad?
Radians.
IntangibleMatter
You know what makes you tan? sin/cos
True Survivor
Ironically, it seems like you two are using your degrees.
Queen Anthai
THIS FUCKING PUN
Davus
Gosh, it’s great, isn’t it?
Pseudowolf
I found it a little obtuse, to be honest.
Laura
Acutely funny!
Reltzik
Definitely gradian-A humor.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Absolutely radian…t
Leorale
Haha, awesome
Ed Callahan
Best pun in years.
clif
As insane as measuring rotations in 360 degree segments is, measuring rotations in terms of distance is even crazier and means pi pops up in all kinds of places it has no real business being. A 1/2 rotation is much more straightforward than 180 degrees or pi radiations. This becomes particularly true when you get to complex exponents. If we adopted the simpler system of defaulting to rotations instead of radians then it’s easy to see that when taking something to an imaginary power, only the fractions count. Its easy to see that x to the i power = x, x to the 1/2 i power = -x, x to the 1/4 i power = ix, and so forth. Computationally, having to take imaginary powers mod 2 pi, when pi is irrational is just nuts. For that matter, approximating trig functions on digital computers for useful intervals as the ratio of two power series is slightly simpler and slightly more accurate when using rotations instead of radians. It’s too late to change it now, but incorporating radians into our mathematical notation was a bad move. /End of rant.
clif
Ah! pi radiations should be pi radians. Insert rant on autocorrect and the lack of edit functionality.
clif
It also helps to be fully awake when ranting. That should be to the power of 1+i, 1+ 1/2 i, and 1 +1/4 i. As written, x to the power of 1/2 i would be -1 using rotations instead of radians, etc.
Decidedly Orthogonal
That would get rid of pi in some cases, but it certainly wouldn’t fix everything. There is another perspective that helps clean up a bunch of other inconsistencies though:
https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto
Decidedly Orthogonal
Oh. There’s also a good reason why circles are measured in degrees (aside from the coincidence of being close to 365.24…) 360 is a superior highly composite number. It breaks up into a LOT of whole fractions nicely and also plays nicely with our primitive fixation on decimal numbers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/360_(number)
Nono
What about radishes?
CianM1301
Found the Fraggle.
Embe13
c’mon Nappa no ones gonna get that reference
Casi
i understood that reference
Reltzik
Also: 0.01 sieverts.
Mark
🙂
Makkabee
Looking for obscure math puns?
Secant ye shall find.
Laura
Oh, mang… I NEVER, EVER did learn Trig. Got thru 2 full years of Calculus without ever having actually learned trig.
Laura
Or much of geometry…
Animedingo
Gaydar going CRAZY
Morhek
I mean, Becky’s gaydar has a history of being a little wonky.
Daibhid C
OR HAS IT?
Mturtle7
“Becky, you can’t seriously be claiming that the ENTIRE main cast is queer in some way?! Your gaydar MUST be malfunctioning…”
“I’m telling you, it’s true! Every single one of them! One day, everyone’ll come out of the closet, and then you’ll see…you’ll ALL see!”
*20 years later*
“MUAHAHAHAHA! I WAS RIGHT! I WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG! EAT IT, LOSERS!”
Casi
20 years later our time? so end of freshman year for them
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Nope, 20 years later THEIR time… by which point, our grandkids will be reading this comic which will still be in production by Willis-bot 3000. xD
Leorale
The straights still have Sarah, Joe, probably Jacob, and probably Lucy! And I guess Roz and Mary, but they’re not exactly tier 1.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Only until Becks upgrades her GayDAR to a GaySER.
Laura
Huh?
Steamweed
Possibly it could just be Becky doing her usual, which is to make a comment about being a lesbian with every encounter with every person. Might be a coincidence. Maybe.
*squints side-eye at Becky
NGPZ
yee, gay-diation at least 200x the background level
brace yaself, it gonna get HOT B)
*plays “Dead Fingers Talking” on hacked muzak*
Thag Simmons
In which two characters are allowed an internal monologue!
Sporky
It’s pretty funny to go back to that story now. It’s still rare but a bunch of characters have had thought bubbles and it’s not a big deal at all
shadowcell
lesbian senses tingling
anon
Imagine some new arc where Becky gets a whiff of Dorothy’s feelings and immediately tries to go set her up with literally any other girl lol
(sorry i ,meant to hit reply not report, ifi tshows up in any mod’s inboxes)
Needfuldoer
Becky would stage an elaborate dating game show before she let Dorothy date Joyce.
Nymph
“Bachelorette Number 3, what’s your favorite hobby?”
“I keep telling you I’m not involved in this, please take this game out of the lobby.”
Steamweed
Asma does not appreciate being dragged into spontaneous freshmen game show hijinks.
Holly
So head of the newspaper that just gave her the Amazigirl article and is DESPERATE for any WLW action then?
CandidCanid
“Zero, best I can tell. I guess that estimate could change.” ?
Jo_cubstar
I dont understand what this means or who is supposed to be saying it/replying to it
Sirksome
This.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/kinsey/
MM
This also seems relevant: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/upended/
Rolf of Many Doors
That strip always rankled me because so many people cite the Kinsey scale and act like citing his work is a good thing, but rarely do they know about how wildly skewed Kinsey’s research by the types of people interviewed, the methods used for data gathering, and his own sexuality getting way too involved in the studies to consider his findings scientificly objective
CandidCanid
Those are fair critiques. Although, for a time it has been understandably wielded as a way to explain things to people in a way that might make sense to them, more or less—albeit on a surface level.
Personally, I can say that learning about the Kinsey scale as a teenager helped give me the tools and words to measure and make sense of things I was going through. Past a certain point, I found it too flawed and reductive to be useful anymore… but I am still grateful that it helped me at one time.
I’d love to see more well-rounded and ethical research become popularized, all that being said. I think it’s important to examine the kinds of errors and inethicalities that tend to plague such important academic works, that we might later down the line be able to find them a little bit more deserving of being lauded as the landmarks of social progress that they are.
Regret
Educate more, berate less.
Also, self-reported position on the Kinsey scale doesn’t have any of those problems. It doesn’t use his methods, only interviews one person, and the only sexuality involved is theirs.
Li
+1
CandidCanid
I’m referencing the strip titled “Kinsey” published on May 1, 2015. Dorothy’s words in panel 3, as slightly paraphrased by me.
… I’ve got a sharp memory, wow. I made a reference to a strip published 10 years ago.
Acher4
Wow. Exactly 10 years later!
jeffepp
This strip comes to mind almost any time Dottie interacts with any other female.
SDGlyph
Yup. Sarah from EGS is similarly one that frequently comes to mind.
Steamweed
Incidents don’t count. They’re all incidental.
Taffy
Becky is correcky.
Rolf of Many Doors
That Gravitar out here doing not-the-lord-because-there-is-no-lord-just-nothing’s work
Nymph
doing the nothing’s work.
Taffy
My Gravatar is really gonna fuck up Fantastica.
Adept
Gravar is perfectly on point. Well done.
Cassie
Oof yeah figuring out you’re queer is just like that sometimes.
Bryy
Also doesn’t help when you’ve disguised the repression of all of your character growth as “having a goal”.
Chubseus
Damn that rings true. How much damage has she done to herself just by thinking, “presidents aren’t allowed to ____.”
Li
Well, for starters, she has deliberately avoided being honest with her therapist even though she suspects she might benefit from medication (like an antidepressant).
Nathan Goldwag
This seems suspicious, but it’s actually just how Becky starts every conversation.
IntangibleMatter
Becky, you probably didn’t know the psychological gunshot wound you just inflicted upon Dorothy, but if you did then I cannot give you enough respect for overhearing this conversation and deciding to make it worse.
Thag Simmons
From the second panel she almost certainly didn’t, unless she doubled back in order to avoid suspicion.
Mr D phone posting
Yeah I think this is Becky’s usual schtick of coming into a room and going “HEY HAVE I MENTIONED IM A LESBIAN TODAY?”
Steamweed
That’s how I’m seeing it. Occam’s Razor (which he really wants back) says it’s just Becky saying the usual Becky things.